David Fincher
David Fincher
David Andrew Leo Fincheris an American director and producer, notably for films, television series, and music videos. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for the romantic fantasy drama The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttonand the drama The Social Network. For the latter, he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director and the BAFTA Award for Best Direction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth28 August 1962
CityDenver, CO
CountryUnited States of America
I always feel ill-prepared for commentaries and it had been so long I was afraid I'd forget everything that happened on the film.
In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.
The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.
When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.
Yet as a director, I don't feel you have to identify with your characters as a requirement to make a movie.
For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.
I don't think that digital technology will ever take away the humanity of storytelling, because storytelling is entirely, in and of itself, a wholly human concern.
When you cast somebody you cast them not only for... I look for an inherent kind of quality. You are going to be shooting 14 hour days and you are going to be tired. You are going to not necessarily be able to conjure armor or a façade every single moment.
It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't get it done to the satisfaction.
Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine.
I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes.
I don't know how to depict intelligence.
I loved Luke Skywalker and I loved Darth Vader and I loved watching them work it out.
I learn the most from making my own mistakes.